And the home directory is aliased to ~ in UNIX-like systems because the tilde key doubled as the Home key.

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[–] 17 points 7 months ago

I love Vim style navigation. I use it for everything. I favor any program/WM that uses it. once you figure it out it makes the mouse feel like a slow relic.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    So if written today, vi would use wasd?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The point of using hjkl is to navigate while keeping your fingers on the home row and without moving your fingers to other positions

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Oh, I know. I've been using VI since 1992. I was just wondering, given that wasd is the popular navigation format now thanks to gaming, if VI would have been coded differently today.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I think I'd be okay with that. I've setup my keyboard so that FN+wasd act as arrow keys and I will occasionally use them that way in my editor even if I primarily use vim style movement

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